... first stage To some extend, I try to conduct the study entitled The factors affecting speaking skill of first year students at Vinh University and some suggested solutions to improve their speaking ... investigate the factors affecting speaking skill of the first year students at Vinh University To investigate the working mechanism of these factors on the students through which the implications ... questions are generated: • What factors affect speaking skills of first year students at Vinh University? • What strategies should be used to improve their speaking skill? • What are the solutions...

... practicability is administrative That is, a test ought to be practicalwithin the means of financial limitations, time constraints, ease of administration, scoring and interpretation of scores A test ... Coucil Alderson, C., Clapham, C & Wall, D (1995) Language Test Construction and Evaluation Great Britain: Cambridge University Press Brown, J D, Hudson, T (1998) “The alternatives in language assessment.” ... It answers the question if the test appears reasonable or too easy or too difficult In addition, among various types of validity, content and face validity are considered to be most important...

... communicative language teaching and practical techniques for language teaching 3 Chapter deals with the analysis on the current performance of English teaching and learning in junior high schools in Quang ... Functional-Notional Approach In the 19 70s teachers of the Functional-Notional Approach stopped teaching grammar and started teaching more practical phrases and vocabulary for everyday life and social situations ... emphasizes the implication of the study in which practical techniques for improving the teaching of oral skills for junior high school teachers in Quang Ngai province are suggested Part (Conclusion)...

... identify factors which will facilitate or inhibit the implementation of communicative language teaching approach in teaching oral skills to the first years students in Hanoi University of Industry and ... investigates the reality of the teaching oral skills to the first year students in HaUI when the teachers are considered to be applying CLT approach in their teaching The main goal of the research is to ... hearer; making a choice from his repertoire of language of what to say and how to say it; and evaluating feedback from what he has done Information gap in a communicative activity means that one...

... material later, after they have mastered the basic grammar and vocabulary of the language The last one is the lack of adequate training HCC teachers may not have been adequately trained in the ... of Comparing and Contrasting approach: 30 % instead of 10% of the students say that they are very good at English The same thing applies to the students who believe that they are good at English ... states “intercultural awareness, as a fundamental feature of language and an integral part of language learning, is important at all level.” Briefly, regardless of different points of view, the...